View from SE showing SSW and ESE fronts

Description View from SE showing SSW and ESE fronts

Date 9/7/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 733445

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Cold Store & Ice Factory, No 23 Tower Street, Leith, Edinburgh This large building was built in the late 19th or early 20th century by the North British Cold Storage and Ice Co Ltd, probably to store frozen and chilled meat imported from Argentina and New Zealand, and probably also to make ice for the trawler fleet operating out of Granton Harbour. This shows the frontage of the factory to Tower Street, from the south-east. The sides of the building are windowless to reduce heat loss. The tower on the end is for a hoist. The low-relief arcading on the side reduces the apparent bulk of the structure. The extinction of the frozen and chilled meat trade, and the end of trawling from Granton hit this business badly, and the building was demolished in the early 1990s, as part of the regeneration of Leith. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/27/8

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733445

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap